Father struck son in street

A FATHER has been conditionally discharged by magistrates for striking his wayward teenage son in the street after the court decided he was trying to exercise parental control.

Nicholas Goodbourn, 35, was charged with affray after he drove to the scene where his son, Gary, 17, was involved in a confrontation with police last month, got out and immediately hit the boy in the face in front of the officers.

Magistrates in King’s Lynn sentenced him on a lesser charge after he pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words in public. He was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay £40 in costs.

Anne Wadsworth, the chairman of the bench, said: “We do find there is a lot of mitigation for the